Re: Ada Lovelace: others & forerunners

"Bruno Marchal [email protected] [Fabric-of-Reality]" <[email protected]> Thu, 22 Oct 2015 16:54:35 +0200
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On 14 Oct 2015, at 16:21, hibbsa-/[email protected] [Fabric-of-Reality] wrote:


> >=
---In [email protected], <marchal@...> wrote :
>
> > On 09 =
Oct 2015, at 23:55, hibbsa@... mailto:hibbsa@...
> [Fabric-of-Reality] wrot=
e:
>
> > >---In [email protected] mailto:
> Fabric-of-Reali=
[email protected], <marchal@...> wrote :
>
> >>>On 24 Sep 2015, at 13:33, =
hibbsa@...
> >>>mailto:hibbsa@ mailto:hibbsa@... [Fabric-of-Reality] wrote:=


>
> >>regarding Ada Lovelace contributions to computing,
> >>David Deutsch=
 tweets https://twitter.com/ https://twitter.com/
> >>DavidDeutschOxf/statu=
s/644977353651785730:
>
>
> >>"ProfBrianCox @FryRsquared Fascinating. It co=
nvinced
> >>me that I was wrong: Babbage never really got universality.
> >=
>Lovelace totally did."
>
>
> >>Hmm... I have a little french book from 191=
1 by
> >>Jacques Lafitte which gave me indirect evidence
> >> that Babbage =
did got the "universality" insight
> >> (for >computations). he got it not =
from his machine(s),
> >> but from the language he invented to describe the=


> >> machine, and he realized that such a language is
> >>as powerfull tha=
n his machine.
> >> I have evidence that Ada invented programming
> >>and s=
ubroutine, but I am not sure she get the
> >> universality I will take a lo=
ok (when I have more time).
>
> > Yes well....having seen the documentary I=
 spent a
> >little time digging out some details (actually all I did
> >was=
 visit (the site/blog of) some trusted historians of science).
> >Apparentl=
y all Ada Lovelace did was publish a single
> >paper, in which she performe=
d a translation to English
> >of a lecture given by or for Babbage. She add=
ed 'poetic
> >annotations' on what one might do with the analytical
> >engi=
ne. Which was entirely Babbage's' work. Another
> >point was that not only =
was it absolute bullshit that
> >Lovelace inspired or influenced at all the=
 first computer,
> >but that it's not straight forwarder that the analytica=
l
> >machine did.
>
> >Hi Hibbsa. What you describe is the usual opinion.
>=
 >But the book by Laffite expalins that when creating a
> >lnague to descri=
be the plan of he machine, Babbage
> >eventually realized that the language=
 for the plan
> >was as much a discovery than its machine, and that
> >he f=
elt frustrated not being able to communicate that
> >discovery. It means th=
at he undertood that his language
> >was a universal machine too, in (a pos=
teriroi) the
> >mathematical sense which he did not intent to make
> >preci=
se. Now, I have not seen that language, but I am
> >open to the idea that B=
abbage got the "tilt" of the "Turing
> >universality". About ADA, my readin=
g is that she invented
> >the notion of subroutine, and the practice of pro=
gramming,
> >which demands also some intuiotion of that universality.
> >Wi=
th Babbage feeling about its language, the discovery is
> > made more expli=
cit.
> > Today we know that some diophantine polynomial relation are Turing=
  
> universal. Universality grows >up at the very elementary part of the  =


> arithmetical reality.
>
> Hi Bruno, hope you're well,
> Sure, on the fac=
e of it there's some compelling elements there. It's  
> also significant -=
 from my perspective - that Deutsch says he found  
> it convincing. Becaus=
e I know how much thinking he does about  
> universality.
> Just to clarif=
y, because it isn't clear whether that last post from  
> me was expressing=
 my own view or the view of some historians.  
> Actually I was just paraph=
rasing the views I read. But...I do think  
> historians have a lot to inpu=
t into this sort of thing.
> The big question is really whether there is ac=
tual causality in the  
> flow of certain historical events. No one would l=
ikely doubt that  
> Lovelace anticipated aspects of computing. But the que=
stion of  
> whether she changed the line of history is more involved.
> Th=
e difference is just that any number of people can be said in  
> hindsight=
 to have anticipated. That number is really directly  
> proportional to th=
e detail of history that one is aware. Whereas to  
> be in the line of cau=
sality is much more constrained. So a much  
> higher accolade.
>


Hi Hibbs=
a,


What is interesting is that G=C3=B6del missed Church's thesis, and  
di=
sbelieve it until reading Turing's paper.
Church itself did not really gras=
p it as much as people like Emil  
Post, or Stephen Kleene, or the philosop=
her Judson Webb, who wrote a  
book showing how the classical machine alrea=
dy defeat Lucas-Pensore  
type of argument.


Deustch seems to believe in a =
notion of physical universality, in a  
stronger sense: the existence of a =
physical machine able to emulate  
all physical systems in polynomial time.=
 To me, this is an open  
problem. One type of universal system would won i=
n the statistics of  
all computations, and would have that property. It is=
 quite plausible,  
but it is still an open problem to me, or in arithmetic=
 (such problems  
can be translated in arithmetic, or in arithmetical terms=
 (involving  
possible quite complex set of numbers, like arithmetical trut=
h). The  
fact that the observable of the Turing machine, as I define them,=
 have  
a natural quantization in arithmetic is just a promise toward such =
 
quantum machine. Empirically, the evidences are quite strong, no doubt.


=


Best,


Bruno








>
>
>
> Bruno
>
>
> my comment:
>
>
> Hi DD, I watched it=
 after seeing your tweet, and found it  
> fascinating also. I thought you =
might be interested in the following  
> documentary, which sheds light on =
a forerunner to Ada Lovelace. In  
> terms of universality, that the possib=
ility was being glimpsed (but  
> not realized) is evident.
>
>
> https://w=
ww.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbLb54FCMt9o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbLb5=
4FCMt9o 
>  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbLb54FCMt9o https://www.youtu=
be.com/watch?v=3DbLb54FCMt9o
>
>
> Another recent documentary about Turing'=
s Bletchley peer "Gordon  
> Welchman" whose contribution to the Collossus =
and code breaking is  
> regarded as at least equal to Turing himself. Poss=
ibly greater.
>
>
> Bletchley Park: Code-breaking's Forgotten Genius http:/=
/www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b069gxz7/bletchley-park-codebreakings-forgot=
ten-genius 
>  http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b069gxz7/bletchley-park=
-codebreakings-forgotten-genius
>
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/=
b069gxz7/bletchley-park-codebreakings-forgotten-genius 
>  http://www.bbc.c=
o.uk/iplayer/episode/b069gxz7/bletchley-park-codebreakings-forgotten-genius=


>
> Bletchley Park: Code-breaking's Forgotten Genius http://www.bbc.co.uk/=
iplayer/episode/b069gxz7/bletchley-park-codebreakings-forgotten-genius 
>  =
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b069gxz7/bletchley-park-codebreakings-=
forgotten-genius 
>  A look at Gordon Welchman, a codebreaker crucial to th=
e defeat of  
> the Nazis.
>
> View on www.bbc.co.uk http://www.bbc.co.uk/i=
player/episode/b069gxz7/bletchley-park-codebreakings-forgotten-genius 
>  h=
ttp://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b069gxz7/bletchley-park-codebreakings-f=
orgotten-genius
> Preview by Yahoo
>
>
> Of course, Leibniz was conceptuall=
y close to. My candidate for the  
> first real understanding of universali=
ty might be Emil Post, the  
> founders, with Kleene of "recursion theory".=


>
>
> Only one certainty: G=C3=B6del did not got it, and neither Church.  =


> "Church's thesis" is a label created by Kleene when he understood  
> th=
at the class of partial recursive function is closed for the  
> diagonaliz=
ation procedure, what G=C3=B6del called a "miracle". G=C3=B6del  
> accepte=
d Church's thesis only after his reading of Turing, who got  
> it too of c=
ourse.
>
>
> Bruno
>
>
> http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ http://iridia.ul=
b.ac.be/~marchal/ http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ 
>  http://iridia.ulb.a=
c.be/~marchal/
>
> http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ http://iridia.ulb.ac.b=
e/~marchal/
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      <p><br><div><div>On 14 Oct 2015, at 16:21, <a href=3D"mailto:hibbsa@y=
ahoo.com">hibbsa-/[email protected]</a> [Fabric-of-Reality] wrote:</div><br class=3D=
"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite">     <div style=3D"ba=
ckground-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <span>&nbsp;</span>      <div id=3D"y=
grp-text"><p>&gt;---In <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]"=
>[email protected]</a>, &lt;marchal@...&gt; wrote :<br> <br=
> &gt; On 09 Oct 2015, at 23:55, hibbsa@... <a href=3D"mailto:hibbsa@">mail=
to:hibbsa@</a>...<br> [Fabric-of-Reality] wrote:<br> <br> &gt;  &gt;---In <=
a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">Fabric-of-Reality@yahoo=
groups.com</a> mailto:<br> <a href=3D"mailto:Fabric-of-Reality@yahoogroups.=
com">[email protected]</a>, &lt;marchal@...&gt; wrote :<br>=
 <br> &gt;&gt;&gt;On 24 Sep 2015, at 13:33, hibbsa@... <br> &gt;&gt;&gt;<a =
href=3D"mailto:hibbsa@">mailto:hibbsa@</a> <a href=3D"mailto:hibbsa@">mailt=
o:hibbsa@</a>... [Fabric-of-Reality] wrote:<br> <br> &gt;&gt;regarding Ada =
Lovelace contributions to computing, <br> &gt;&gt;David Deutsch tweets <a h=
ref=3D"https://twitter.com/">https://twitter.com/</a> <a href=3D"https://tw=
itter.com/">https://twitter.com/</a><br> &gt;&gt;DavidDeutschOxf/status/644=
977353651785730:<br> <br> <br> &gt;&gt;"ProfBrianCox @FryRsquared Fascinati=
ng. It convinced <br> &gt;&gt;me that I was wrong: Babbage never really got=
 universality. <br> &gt;&gt;Lovelace totally did."<br> <br> <br> &gt;&gt;Hm=
m... I have a little french book from 1911 by <br> &gt;&gt;Jacques Lafitte =
which gave me indirect evidence<br> &gt;&gt; that Babbage did got the "univ=
ersality" insight<br> &gt;&gt; (for &gt;computations). he got it not from h=
is machine(s),<br> &gt;&gt; but from the language he invented to describe t=
he<br> &gt;&gt; machine, and he realized that such a language is <br> &gt;&=
gt;as powerfull than his machine.<br> &gt;&gt; I have evidence that Ada inv=
ented programming <br> &gt;&gt;and subroutine, but I am not sure she get th=
e<br> &gt;&gt; universality I will take a look (when I have more time).<br>=
 <br> &gt; Yes well....having seen the documentary I spent a<br> &gt;little=
 time digging out some details (actually all I did <br> &gt;was visit (the =
site/blog of) some trusted historians of science). <br> &gt;Apparently all =
Ada Lovelace did was publish a single<br> &gt;paper, in which she performed=
 a translation to English <br> &gt;of a lecture given by or for Babbage. Sh=
e added 'poetic <br> &gt;annotations' on what one might do with the analyti=
cal <br> &gt;engine. Which was entirely Babbage's' work. Another<br> &gt;po=
int was that not only was it absolute bullshit that <br> &gt;Lovelace inspi=
red or influenced at all the first computer, <br> &gt;but that it's not str=
aight forwarder that the analytical <br> &gt;machine did. <br> <br> &gt;Hi =
Hibbsa. What you describe is the usual opinion. <br> &gt;But the book by La=
ffite expalins that when creating a <br> &gt;lnague to describe the plan of=
 he machine, Babbage <br> &gt;eventually realized that the language for the=
 plan <br> &gt;was as much a discovery than its machine, and that <br> &gt;=
he felt frustrated not being able to communicate that <br> &gt;discovery. I=
t means that he undertood that his language <br> &gt;was a universal machin=
e too, in (a posteriroi) the <br> &gt;mathematical sense which he did not i=
ntent to make <br> &gt;precise.  Now, I have not seen that language, but I =
am<br> &gt;open to the idea that Babbage got the "tilt" of the "Turing <br>=
 &gt;universality". About ADA, my reading is that she invented<br> &gt;the =
notion of subroutine, and the practice of programming, <br> &gt;which deman=
ds also some intuiotion of that universality. <br> &gt;With Babbage feeling=
 about its language, the discovery is<br> &gt; made more explicit. <br> &gt=
; Today we know that some diophantine polynomial relation are Turing univer=
sal. Universality grows &gt;up at the very elementary part of the arithmeti=
cal reality. <br> <br> Hi Bruno, hope you're well, <br> Sure, on the face o=
f it there's some compelling elements there. It's also significant - from m=
y perspective - that Deutsch says he found it convincing. Because I know ho=
w much thinking he does about universality. <br> Just to clarify, because i=
t isn't clear whether that last post from me was expressing my own view or =
the view of some historians. Actually I was just paraphrasing the views I r=
ead. But...I do think historians have a lot to input into this sort of thin=
g. <br> The big question is really whether there is actual causality in the=
 flow of certain historical events. No one would likely doubt that Lovelace=
 anticipated aspects of computing. But the question of whether she changed =
the line of history is more involved. <br> The difference is just that any =
number of people can be said in hindsight to have anticipated. That number =
is really directly proportional to the detail of history that one is aware.=
 Whereas to be in the line of causality is much more constrained. So a much=
 higher accolade. <br></p></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><di=
v>Hi Hibbsa,</div><div><br></div><div>What is interesting is that G=C3=B6de=
l missed Church's thesis, and disbelieve it until reading Turing's paper.&n=
bsp;</div><div>Church itself did not really grasp it as much as people like=
 Emil Post, or Stephen Kleene, or the philosopher Judson Webb, who wrote a =
book showing how the classical machine already defeat Lucas-Pensore type of=
 argument.</div><div><br></div><div>Deustch seems to believe in a notion of=
 physical universality, in a stronger sense: the existence of a physical ma=
chine able to emulate all physical systems in polynomial time. To me, this =
is an open problem. One type of universal system would won in the statistic=
s of all computations, and would have that property. It is quite plausible,=
 but it is still an open problem to me, or in arithmetic (such problems can=
 be translated in arithmetic, or in arithmetical terms (involving possible =
quite complex set of numbers, like arithmetical truth). The fact that the o=
bservable of the Turing machine, as I define them, have a natural quantizat=
ion in arithmetic is just a promise toward such quantum machine. Empiricall=
y, the evidences are quite strong, no doubt.</div><div><br></div><div><br><=
/div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Bruno</div><div><br></div><div><br=
></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"backgroun=
d-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id=3D"ygrp-mlmsg"><div id=3D"ygrp-msg"><=
div id=3D"ygrp-text"><p><br> <br> <br> Bruno<br> <br> <br> my comment:<br> =
<br> <br> Hi DD, I watched it after seeing your tweet, and found it fascina=
ting also. I thought you might be interested in the following documentary, =
which sheds light on a forerunner to Ada Lovelace. In terms of universality=
, that the possibility was being glimpsed (but not realized) is evident.<br=
> <br> <br> <a href=3D"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbLb54FCMt9o">https=
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbLb54FCMt9o</a> <a href=3D"https://www.youtube=
.com/watch?v=3DbLb54FCMt9o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbLb54FCMt9o</=
a> <a href=3D"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbLb54FCMt9o">https://www.yo=
utube.com/watch?v=3DbLb54FCMt9o</a> <a href=3D"https://www.youtube.com/watc=
h?v=3DbLb54FCMt9o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbLb54FCMt9o</a><br> <b=
r> <br> Another recent documentary about Turing's Bletchley peer "Gordon We=
lchman" whose contribution to the Collossus and code breaking is regarded a=
s at least equal to Turing himself. Possibly greater.<br> <br> <br> Bletchl=
ey Park: Code-breaking's Forgotten Genius <a href=3D"http://www.bbc.co.uk/i=
player/episode/b069gxz7/bletchley-park-codebreakings-forgotten-genius">http=
://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b069gxz7/bletchley-park-codebreakings-forg=
otten-genius</a> <a href=3D"http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b069gxz7/b=
letchley-park-codebreakings-forgotten-genius">http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/=
episode/b069gxz7/bletchley-park-codebreakings-forgotten-genius</a><br> <br>=
 <br> <a href=3D"http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b069gxz7/bletchley-pa=
rk-codebreakings-forgotten-genius">http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06=
9gxz7/bletchley-park-codebreakings-forgotten-genius</a> <a href=3D"http://w=
ww.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b069gxz7/bletchley-park-codebreakings-forgotte=
n-genius">http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b069gxz7/bletchley-park-code=
breakings-forgotten-genius</a><br> <br> Bletchley Park: Code-breaking's For=
gotten Genius <a href=3D"http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b069gxz7/blet=
chley-park-codebreakings-forgotten-genius">http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epi=
sode/b069gxz7/bletchley-park-codebreakings-forgotten-genius</a> <a href=3D"=
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b069gxz7/bletchley-park-codebreakings-=
forgotten-genius">http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b069gxz7/bletchley-p=
ark-codebreakings-forgotten-genius</a> A look at Gordon Welchman, a codebre=
aker crucial to the defeat of the Nazis.<br> <br> View on www.bbc.co.uk <a =
href=3D"http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b069gxz7/bletchley-park-codebr=
eakings-forgotten-genius">http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b069gxz7/ble=
tchley-park-codebreakings-forgotten-genius</a> <a href=3D"http://www.bbc.co=
.uk/iplayer/episode/b069gxz7/bletchley-park-codebreakings-forgotten-genius"=
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b069gxz7/bletchley-park-codebreakings=
-forgotten-genius</a><br> Preview by Yahoo <br> <br> <br> Of course, Leibni=
z was conceptually close to. My candidate for the first real understanding =
of universality might be Emil Post, the founders, with Kleene of "recursion=
 theory".<br> <br> <br> Only one certainty: G=C3=B6del did not got it, and =
neither Church. "Church's thesis" is a label created by Kleene when he unde=
rstood that the class of partial recursive function is closed for the diago=
nalization procedure, what G=C3=B6del called a "miracle". G=C3=B6del accept=
ed Church's thesis only after his reading of Turing, who got it too of cour=
se.<br> <br> <br> Bruno<br> <br> <br> <a href=3D"http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~m=
archal/">http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/</a> <a href=3D"http://iridia.ulb=
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